The new cosmic story
Subtitle: inside our awakening universe
By: John F. Haught
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 229
ISBN-13: 9780300217032
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: Religion and science
Description: A foremost thinker on science and religion argues that an adequate understanding of cosmic history requires attention to the emergence of interiority, including religious aspiration. Over the past two centuries scientific advances have made it clear that the universe is a story still unfolding. In this thought-provoking book, John F. Haught considers the deeper implications of this discovery. He contends that many others who have written books on life and the universe--including Stephen Hawking, Stephen Jay Gould, and Richard Dawkins--have overlooked a crucial aspect of cosmic history: the drama of life's awakening to interiority and religious awareness. Science may illuminate the outside story of the universe, but a full telling of the cosmic story cannot ignore the inside development that interiority represents. Haught addresses two primary questions: what does the arrival of religion tell us about the universe, and what does our understanding of the cosmos as an unfinished drama tell us about religion? The history of religion may be ambiguous and sometimes even barbarous, he asserts, but its role in the story of cosmic emergence and awakening must be taken into account.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-220) and index.
Table of contents: title: Dawning; title: Awakening; title: Transformation; title: Interiority; title: Indestructibility; title: Transcendence; title: Symbolism; title: Purpose; title: Obligation; title: Wrongness; title: Happiness; title: Prayerfulness.